Free ebook via Microsoft Press: Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (First Preview)

Hello! To help celebrate the Windows 8 Release Preview and the Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate, we’re happy to release a preview edition of Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, by Kraig Brockschmidt (who, some of you might remember, many years ago worked with us on a couple editions of Inside OLE).

Download a PDF of the ebook here (4.34 MB).
Download the ebook’s sample code here (27.5 MB).

This first preview contains the first four chapters of what we think will be an 18-chapter final ebook:

    Chapter 1   The Life Story of a Metro Style App: Platform Characteristics of Windows 8
    Chapter 2   Quickstart
    Chapter 3   App Anatomy and Page Navigation
    Chapter 4   Controls, Control Styling, and Basic Data Binding
    Chapter 5   Collections and Collection Controls
    Chapter 6   Layout
    Chapter 7   Metro Style Commanding UI
    Chapter 8   State, Settings, Files, and Documents
    Chapter 9   Input and Sensors
    Chapter 10   Media
    Chapter 11   Purposeful Animations
    Chapter 12   Contracts
    Chapter 13   Tiles, Notifications, the Lock Screen, and Background Tasks
    Chapter 14   Networking
    Chapter 15   Devices and Printing
    Chapter 16   Extensions
    Chapter 17   Apps for Everyone: Localization, Accessibility, and the Windows Store
    Chapter 18   Services

In the summer we’ll release a Second Preview version, which will contain 8–12 chapters. And then, in the fall, we’ll release the final version.

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